If the care chooser is maximising expected life-years ie favours saving the young then he can be “inconsistent”.
Also if you had enough money you would just buy all the options. The only options that get dropped are those that interfere with more saving options.
If somebody truly considered a life to be worth some dollar amount and their budjet was increased then they would still pick the same options but end up with a bigger pile of cash. Given that this “considers worth to be” floats with the budjet I doubt that treating it as a dollar amount is a good idea.
The opportunity cost is still real thougth. If you use a doctor to save someone that means you can’t simultanously use them to save another. So assigning a doctor or equipment you are simultanousy saving and endangering lives. And being too stubborn about your decisio making just means you endaangerment side of things just grows without bound.
If the care chooser is maximising expected life-years ie favours saving the young then he can be “inconsistent”.
Also if you had enough money you would just buy all the options. The only options that get dropped are those that interfere with more saving options.
If somebody truly considered a life to be worth some dollar amount and their budjet was increased then they would still pick the same options but end up with a bigger pile of cash. Given that this “considers worth to be” floats with the budjet I doubt that treating it as a dollar amount is a good idea.
The opportunity cost is still real thougth. If you use a doctor to save someone that means you can’t simultanously use them to save another. So assigning a doctor or equipment you are simultanousy saving and endangering lives. And being too stubborn about your decisio making just means you endaangerment side of things just grows without bound.